For every high school, the state tracks the percentage of students who graduate in four years.

All 15 were Oregon residents, but the state did not track how long they had lived here.

A new federal law says that every state must track progress by comparing the same grades year after year.

She said the state does not track how many people are denied benefits because they are in drug treatment.

This permits the state, the school district and the school to track each student's progress from one year to the next.

Few states track the number of babies abandoned, dead or alive.

The state does not track whether students who leave Connecticut to attend college return home.

The states can track the performance of each school only with consistent yearly testing, they said, so any change must be carefully scrutinized.

Most states do not track the number of cases filed much less keep a running tally of outcomes.

Tennessee did not provide information on whether the state tracked the amount of funds invested in pre-need plans.